Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-29
PACIFIC COAST.
CHICO CAPTURES THE ORoVILLE
GOLD MEDAL.
Murder in Fresno = The Glorious
Rain-Illness of w. III. Mills
Matters at the Bay.
ESPECIAL DIsrArcHEs TO rHz aEoonp-us1oN.l
AT THE BAY.

AT THE BAY.
Gas Explosion of w. U. Mills
Suspension of Meade 6 Co.
SAN FRANCISCO. December 28th-GSpe-
cial, About half-past l o'clock this after
noon a loud explosion was heard in the
Fremen's Fund Insurance Company's
building, corner of Sansome and California
| streets. The windows in the vicinity
shook and ratified as if under the influence
of an earthquake wave. 1t was afterward
ascertained that the explosion was due to
| leaking gas-burner in the vault in the
ofice of the Insurance Company. The
vault is used for the storage of books, and
usually gas jet is kept burning within
To-day Christopher Thompson, youth in
the employ of the company, threw open
the door and lighted match. There was
flash and roar and Thompson was
hurled through the air at least fifteen feet
He was badly burned about the face and
hands and taken to his home in Oakland
No one else was injured.
AT an early hour this morning a stern
wheeler..was seen stranded between the long
wharf OF the narrow -guage railroad and
| the old wharf at Alameda, having been
driven ashore by the gale.
This morning the British ship Serial
Wyn fouled the British ship Eurasia in
the bay and was cleared by tugs after doing
some damage.
w. H. Mills. Land Agent of the Central
Pacific, is confined to mis- residence by i'll
ness. His physicians say that with rest
and quiet he may resume business duties
| next week.
Hon. L. G. Wilder. President of the
Hawaiian Legislature, arrived in this city
yesterday afternoon by the steamer Aus
Mp i L. A
London to conclude matters relative to the
loan of 81, 100000.
Judge Sawyer has gone to Los Angeles to
open the Circuit Court in that city. He
Will return in about three weeks Mean
| while no business is being transacted in
the United States Courts here, the District
Court having been closed for nearly week.
Governor Waterman has offered the po-
sltlon OF Prison Director to L. L. Baker, of
baker d Hamilton, to succeed Director
tilcher, whose term will expire on January
9th next. 1t is understood, however, that
MIR. Baker will decline the honor because
| OF his business affairs.
1t became known quite early this morn
ing that the well-known house of George
w. Meade d Co., were temporarily embar-
rassed and were seeking an extension that
they might meet their engagements in full.
| To your reporter who called. Mr. Meade
stated: "It is true We are embarrassed,
| and have felt it necessary to make an as
signment for the benefit of our creditors,
without preferences. Late in the season,
when the Eastern demand quieted down,
which is always customary at the season of
the year, we found ourselves with large
| acceptances and bills maturing nearly all
at one time and, though we had abundant
assets, we could not at once realize upon
these to meet our engagements. After the
first of the year all goods in our line COM
mence to move off again, and by June or
July we are usually pretty well cleaned
up. The volume of our cash transactions
for the past four months must have been
something like 81 100000 in cash, all of
which has been paid to the fruit-producers
of this State, and which will give an idea,
perhaps, of the financial requirements of
our office during the fruit packing season
in California"
The Oceanic, which arrived to-day from
China, brought two cases of Asiatic small
pox, and has been sent into quarantine.